More than a dozen city residents have been tapped to serve on a committee that will spend at least the next six months evaluating potential sites to build a new police station.

Aldermen vow the panel’s work won’t result in another ballot initiative this year, and have set a tentative September deadline for the Police Station Committee to submit a written report outlining its findings.

“This council is listening to the public,” City Council President Pro Tempore Peter Desaulniers said Monday night, noting that no one from the council will serve on the committee. He, Mayor Peter Nystrom and alderwoman Sofee Noblick sponsored the resolution to establish the committee.

Officials said they wanted the committee to be resident driven, with an emphasis on selecting people who never before served in a public capacity. No date has been chosen for the panel’s first meeting.

Last November, taxpayers widely rejected a $33.4 million bond that would have allowed the city’s police force to move from its building at 70 Thames St. to a multi-level, 57,000-square-foot complex at 2-6 Cliff St.

The project was endorsed by the City Council, Mayor Peter Nystrom and Police Chief Louis Fusaro Sr. And while there is no language in the citycharter that prevents the council from floating a similar bond this November, aldermen were strong in their assertion against that idea.

“There is no intent to push anything toward November’s ballot whatsoever,” Nystrom said. “In fact, there are no deadlines on this at all.”

Councilman Charlie Jaskiewicz questioned whether six months would be enough time for the committee to examine every possible location fairly for a new facility, as well as such important information as cost projections.

The council broadened the committee’s charge Monday night, adding language to the resolution that requires it to examine the entire scope of the project instead of simply reviewing previous project studies.

Martin Shapiro, a city resident for 45 years, said he was interested in being a part of the committee, so the council added him on Monday.

“The city definitely needs an updated station,” he said. “I just don’t know what the opportunities are. My first impression is that the Cliff Street suggestion was a pretty good one, and maybe they just reached too far in terms of trying to put all the bells and whistles on during the first go-round.”

Nystrom said many people volunteered to serve, including a former city manager.

“The intent was to look for new faces, new people who have never stepped forward and offered their assistance in a civic way,” he said.